The ETS Pitch Session
At the last ETS Staff meeting, we discussed the “Pitch Session”. It’s a time for ETS staff to get together and propose plans for new ideas or different ways of doing things. We had a practice run with Chris Stubbs to try out the format. He proposed the development of an Econ 2 game where students would be the resource managers for a large university. The game would be a bit...
Read MoreTLT Talk: Educational Gaming Commons
Yesterday Brett Bixler, Bart Pursel, and Chris Stubbs gave a talk during the lunchtime TLT Talk series about the Educational Gaming Commons initiative. The group provides a good overview of the initiative and even shows off one of the games being developed by our own jason Wolfe,...
Read MoreNMC Conference on Mashups
Mashups are emerging on our campus in places we’d never expect. Faculty and students alike are building mashups using the platforms we’ve been implementing and with sites outside the Penn State web. With this in mind, Cole Camplese will be presenting at the NMC Symposium on Mashups on April 2nd, 2008. Mashing it up at a Big University While most of our faculty and students...
Read MoreInvited Presentation: University of South Florida
Cole Camplese spent the last couple of days at the University of South Florida where he had been invited to give a talk in the College of Public Health as part of their Dean’s Lecture Series. Cole had been invited to talk about the changing landscape of teaching and learning with technology and meeting student expectations. It was interesting because this was not a technology focused...
Read MorePresentation: Educause Learning Initiative
Cole Camplese and Allan Gyroke presented at the 2008 Educause Learning Initiative annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. The talk is titled, Building the New Platform for Digital Expression. The focus is to to share the approach we’ve taken at PSU to encourage, support, and manage faculty and students’ use of digital media for teaching and learning. Here is a blog entry recapping the...
Read MoreKeynote Presentation: Maricopa Mesa Community College
On January 9th, 2008 I will be giving a keynote talk I am titling, Building a Platform for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. I was an invited featured speaker at Maricopa’s Teaching and Learning with Technology conference this past year and have been invited back to open one of their events this year. I am really looking forward to it! Below is the description for my talk. During this...
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